Matt Gornick, an iFoundry student advisor for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation iTeam, will be speaking about his experiences with start up companies on 5 April at 8pm in Siebel Center room 3401. Gornick is the CEO of OrangeQC and will be presenting about his company, work style and ability to balance school work and the start-up simultaneously. His presentation,  titled “Rework College” will be a part of the “Guerilla Star-up Series” developed by the Illini Entrepreneurship Network.

Matt Gornick, an iFoundry iSA for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation iTeam, presented as part of the Illini Entrepreneurship Network Guerilla Start-up Series on 5 April, 2010.  His presentation, titled “Rework College”, can be found here and notes from his blog can be found here.  Gornick is the CEO of OrangeQC and a senior at the University.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg is tweeting live from the IEEE Conference on Transforming Engineering Education at Dublin.  Right now there is a panel discussing whether transformation is needed and if so what needs to be transformed.  Follow the thread at www.twitter.com/deg511.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg is giving a dinner talk at the IEEE Conference on Transforming Engineering Education (here) in Dublin tonight entitled The Emotional Rescue of Engineering Education.

Related powerpoints are available at www.slideshare.net/deg511.

Jon Peddie, President of Jon Peddie Research (A Technically Oriented Marketing, Research, and Management Consulting Firm in the Graphics Industry) will be on campus 9 April, 2010. Peddie’s presentation will be held in B-02 Coordinated Science Laboratory starting at 2pm.  Peddie is a technology analyst and a widely recognized engineer as well as a keen observer of engineers and engineering life. All are welcome to attend this event. To learn more about Jon Peddie Research and the projects that the company is working on, visit here.

TEDxUIUC, the TED-licensed conference that takes place at the College of Business this Saturday, will be streaming the conference live over the internet starting at 10:15 am on 10 April, 2010. The 17 live presentations, 19 speakers and performers, and 6 prerecorded videos — all in 3 sessions — promise an exhilarating event. To log directly onto the live stream, go here. All are invited to tune into the stream.

The EI (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) iTeam in collaboration with Minogi will be hosting the Creative Entrepreneurial Engineering Workshop on 17 April 2010. The convention will be held at 924 East 57^th Street in Chicago and will last between 1pm and 5pm. Participants will join featured speaker Professor Laura Hollis of the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, Carl Nordgren of Minogi and Zach Kaplan of Inventables and participate in panels and discussions covering start-up processes, learn how to avoid start-up pitfalls and network with creative entrepreneurs world wide. To learn more about the event or to sign up visit here. For transportation, contact Islam Sharabash at Islam.Sharabash@gmail.com.

The Technology Entrepreneur Center is holding a daylong exploration of entrepreneurship, the TEC TEN Symposium, on Saturday 24 April from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the iHotel and Conference Center. The event is free for students, $40 for UIUC faculty, staff and alumni and $75 for businesses and other community members. For more information, visit here.

iFoundry students and Minogi co-hosted the Creative Entrepreneurship Workshop on 17 April at the University of Chicago. The conference, which was free to attend and took place between 1pm and 5pm, discussed raising capital, phases of entrepreneurship and subconscious creativity. Attendees at the conference included students from the University of Illinois, Northwestern, IIT, Depaul, Knox College and other area schools. To view video from the event, visit here.

iFoundry co-chairman David E. Goldberg is tweeting live from the Boston Grand Challenge Summit at Wellesley College.  Go to www.twitter.com/deg511 to follow those posts.